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	<title>Tom Drapeau</title>
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	<description>Thoughts on Geekery, Fatherhood, Pocket Billiards and all manner of internet foolishness</description>
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		<title>Blast Off!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My family and I sent my Dad to go see the STS-130 launch of Space Shuttle Endeavor. The germ of the idea came from a day I sat down with the lovely @ShayWade around Christmastime and asked a simple question, &#8220;Instead of just buying stuff, what if we enabled a family member to do something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tdrapeau.com/2010/02/25/blast-off/</link>
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		<title>Too Fat To Fly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A small sector of the internet is abuzz this weekend surrounding @ThatKevinSmith and his being asked to get off a Southwest Airlines flight due to being TFTF (Too Fat To Fly). To hear Kevin&#8217;s side of the story, you can check out his Smodcast.
I am not a thin person. I have been thinner at various [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tdrapeau.com/2010/02/15/too-fat-to-fly/</link>
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		<title>Watching Movies</title>
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As a kid I watched 80&#8217;s movies&#8230; I loved Ferris Bueller&#8217;s Day Off, Vacation and Better Off Dead. In high school I watched boy movies like Scarface, Bloodsport and the Godfather. I did take one film class, but wasn&#8217;t really focused, and as a result can&#8217;t name any of the movies I saw.
Then I fell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tdrapeau.com/2010/02/02/watching-movies/</link>
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		<title>Book: Coders at Work</title>
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If you are thinking about being a programmer, pick any interview from this book and read it. If, after reading it, you aren&#8217;t excited about programming, then just stop. This is the best book I&#8217;ve ever read that gets inside the mind of a great programmer. True greats, the pioneers of computer science and industry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tdrapeau.com/2009/11/12/book-coders-at-work/</link>
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		<title>Apple May Have Set The &#8220;Genius&#8221; Bar Too High</title>
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First off, I&#8217;ve been a pretty loyal Apple consumer since 2001. I used the Apple IIC machines in school, Windows then Linux machines through the 90&#8217;s, then came back to the light. I&#8217;ve purchased a PowerMac, a Mac Pro, 3 iMacs (one for me), several iPods, an iPhone and now an iPhone 3GS. You could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tdrapeau.com/2009/10/24/apple-may-have-set-the-genius-bar-too-high/</link>
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		<title>How Do You Like Them Apples?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love apple picking. It was a yearly tradition growing up in central Massachusetts&#8211;picking, drinking of mulled cider, pumpkin carving and merriment. I just had the privilege of living that feeling vicariously through KidWonder last weekend, while visiting family. We went to Doe Orchards in Harvard, MA, my childhood haunt. Here are some pics, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tdrapeau.com/2009/10/15/how-do-you-like-them-apples/</link>
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		<title>Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle&#8230; then Hold Still</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Its been a while since we attended this event, another gem suggested to us by the Lollipop Moms meetup group. The Great Children&#8217;s Read, held at Columbia University, is in its third year and brings together books and celebrities to wow an audience largely 2 to 8 years old.
We wiggled into the crowd of parents, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tdrapeau.com/2009/10/15/wiggle-wiggle-wiggle-then-hold-still/</link>
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		<title>Hold On! You Catch Him</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to share two KidWonder anecdotes before we run out for yet another great kids event (pics to come).
On our way out yesterday to the Mamaroneck Lollipop Fair (MomWonder will post the pics, I keep hogging that privilege), I had to gas up the car. On the back of the front passenger seat is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tdrapeau.com/2009/10/04/hold-on-you-catch-him/</link>
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		<title>Mini-Golf Outing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great fun was had by KidWonder and I when we visited the local mini-golf course. The proof (be sure to watch the video at the end):



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		<link>http://tdrapeau.com/2009/10/02/mini-golf-outing/</link>
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		<title>Trucks, Tunes and Lollipops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[KidWonder, MomWonder and I had a really nice outing today at the Larchmont Autumn Community Day, which included a blood drive, free food, public safety presentations, and, the pièce de résistance, Truck Day. KW was in heaven (once he got over how big and loud the trucks were), and played on a small tractor, ambulance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tdrapeau.com/2009/09/26/trucks-tunes-and-lollipops/</link>
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